This Blog is mainly the trials and tribulations of living with various Triumphs - my current ride is a 1973 TR6 in Mimosa yellow, restored 20+ years ago and little used it comes to me with good bodywork and unknown mechanicals, there's some performance parts in there but no one's really sure what. I've had a Triumph or two over the last 25 years including Heralds, Vitesses, 6 pot Spitfire and a Mk1 2.5PI saloon.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Today's learning

An oil change is an easy thing to do, provided you have the right tools.

Draining your oil into a square flat pan is a good idea

But not if it has a crack in it and lest the oil out almost as fast as it goes in

Pouring the oil out of the pan into an old oil can is a good idea

But not if your funnel gets blocked and the oil spills out over the top

Hammering a screw driver into the spin on oil filter is one way of getting purchase on it to get it off

Hammering two holes causes oil to squirt out of one hole into your eye

Staggering about the garage with oil in your eye looking for a rag to wipe your face on is OK

Unless you to kick over an old oil container full of waste oil that you forgot to put the top on

As you can tell, today I have been learning that I should not play with oil first thing in the morning.

It's all cleared up now, ready for some trunnion oiling - another messy job! Trouble is today I have some family stuff to do that entails me getting dressed in tidy clothes - same tomorrow! Snatching a couple of hours at the car here and there will have to do.

I have ditched my locking wheel nuts for standard ones, no use making it complicated if I have to change a wheel in the dark. I have a new set of nuts so I can change them all and consign the old ones to spares. I also have a new set of studs for the rear, I will try and change them too - the car puts a lot of power through those 8 studs.